‘The Daily’: President Trump’s Foreign Policy Muse

Back on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald J. Trump argued that the United States faced a threat — radical Islamic terrorism — on par with fascism, Nazism and communism. He declared to a cheering crowd in Youngstown, Ohio, that “those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be allowed into our country.”

Now that view is not the stuff of stump speeches. It’s America’s foreign policy. As the White House puts in place a sweeping immigration ban focused on majority-Muslim countries, one of the top investigative reporters at The New York Times, Scott Shane, has been seeking an answer to one big question. He wants to know where the president’s views on Islam came from.

We talk with him on the show about what he’s found.

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